Weekend with prospective students

So, this last Saturday Josh had the joy of taking some prospective students around on a tour of Cornell Campus and of Ithaca. Being his family, we got to come along. It was fun to see some of the sights I had not yet taken the time to go and see. Josh took them first up to the bell tower, we picked them up, went to lunch and them up to the falls. I would tell you the name of the waterfalls, but I would spell it wrong, pronounce it wrong, and overall, get it wrong. So "waterfall" will have to do.
This is Evan and Josh in the bell tower. Evan got a kick out of going up there with them.


I couldn't believe how frozen the waterfall was. It was beautiful. Can't wait to see it in the summer!


This is the river down from the falls. It is headed into the lake (next picture). I was amazed at the ice field. Some of the chunks of ice were HUGE!! It was really cool to see. you cold also see the water running under the ice, but only a small stream in the middle.


This is the other side of the street where the water enters the lake. One thing is for certain, if Ithaca holds nothing more than beauty, at least it does it well!!


We enjoyed the day looking around. It happened to be the nicest day of the whole week. Thank goodness the sun came out and the wind stopped, if only for that one day!!

Congratulations Grandpa Cobb!!

We just wanted to congratulate Grandpa Cobb on his recent marriage. He married a wonderful woman named Julie on February 14, 2009. We really like her and we hope they are very happy together. Congratulations Grandpa and Grandma Cobb!!!

Valentine's 2009

So, Valentine's day for us this year was pretty busy. We had fun making pancakes and getting haircuts and making cupcakes and eating chocolate valentine's candy. Here are some of our fun family picts. for that day. We decided it was better celebrated as a family, at least for this time in our lives, so that FHE Monday we made a "heart sun" with rays coming off of it and all week whoever showed love got to fill in a ray. Evan of course took right to this and smoked us all!! But, since it was a lesson geared to him (as Brayden doesn't quite get all concepts yet) it worked out great! The reward or having a full shining heart was the Valentine's candy. Anyway, here are the pictures!!


Brayden's Haircut after the actual haircutting.


Evan's picture is also the after shot.


Brayden just LOVES cleaning out the batter bowl!!


He tries to get every last bit!

Silly Pictures and Silly Brayden

So, to describe this picture. . . Josh drew it. We were playing picture the Prophet (game he made up). The object of the game was to draw picture's that would help someone guess what Prophet you were thinking of. Well, the first two picts. the one with the "white" house, and the "monsoon" is President Monson. I guessed that one fairly easy because Evan let it slip. The bottom half of the page is a different story. I would like to know if anyone can guess what Prophet he is trying to draw. Only look at the picts. on the bottom half of the page (notice the folded line). Comment, and let me know what you think. I will comment later and let you know the answer.


Evan had treats that same night for FHE and I had helped him make caramel apples. I think it was their first time with this food. It was a hit.


So, I've been potty training Brayden latetly. He has been doing fabulously. The first day he had about four accidents. The second day only one, but had two success. Today is day three. We hope for more success. On day two he decided that he wanted to go outside. I locked the door, but the stinker is not clever, but stubborn. I heard him go out but I thought he would be right back in as it is so cold. Well, I didn't hear him come right back in so I went to look. He had put his boots on by himself, and his coat was on backwards. I brought him in, put his coat on right and told him if he wanted to go out he needed pants. Next thing I know he's back outside. So, I gave in and took a picture. It was to cute to pass up. I came and put the camera away and Evan says, "We have a Brayden emergency!" I look out to see that Brayden has made it to the garage, his original intention. So I did proceed to go get him and bring him in. That was the end of his adventure. It was cute, though, seeing him like this outside. To bad it wasn't warmer for him!!

MOST (Museum of Science and Technology)

We found out that our Science Center Pass is good at over 100 Science Center's world wide. We heard about one in Syracuse, so we decided to take a day and go visit it. It has this HUGE play structure, which if the kids are 4 or younger must be accompanied by an adult. So, Josh and myself played or rather, tried to keep up, as our children explored this massive structure. It was fun. They even have this slide that goes on and on, around and around. It made me dizzy, but we had fun! We can't wait to visit other Science Center's to see what they all have!! There is even one in Mexico City, so when we go down there we look forward to visiting it. To bad we didn't know of the New Zealand one while we were there. Maybe one day we'll make it back!!

Evan has some great hang time!! He was suppose to jump and run on this mat that is connected to this screen. He did pretty good after awhile, he even stole the ball from the other player. I believe it was on accident, but he was intrigued by the whole thing.


Josh even had to crawl through tunnels.


This is part of the big playhouse. Don't worry, I had to climb through all these too!


This was an overlook. Another one just like it led to the swirling slide that never ends!


Evan and Brayden loved climbing through all the spaces and tunnels, and climbing as high as they could go. They were fast. Josh chased Brayden around, he was WAY to fast for his Mom!




This was a fun exhibit where you tried to shake your own hand. Interesting.

Evan has proclaimed that he loves Science Center's. Josh asked him if he was going to be a Scientist when he grows up and he said he was. Josh then asked him what kind and proceeded to list a few, Evan responded with "it doesn't matter which kind Dad, as long as I'm a Scientist". He is so matter of fact!

"Shoveling"

Josh was suppose to be shoveling. Instead, his kids ambushed him and begged him to play with them instead. He was ok with that.

January Fun

So, I usually find that out of all the months in the year, January is the one month were I don't have as many cute pictures as I would like. So, to remedy that, I have taken a few pictures of what we have been doing. It's been really nice, though, as Josh has been home for awhile and still doesn't have to go back to school for a week!! It has made the worst month of the year fly by and it has actually been a pretty great month! I know there is still half a month left, but it is still going by quickly and I hope it will continue to do so. Anyway, here are some of the pictures we have taken!

Josh is playing with the kids.  Evan is playing dead.  Very cute.

These are the treats Evan wanted to make for FHE.  They are bagel faces.

This is Josh at the Science Center playing the "itcher" game.  Very funny!  Especially when you take into account I stopped spinning and just made up where he should go.  That made for a much funnier and harder game for him!!

Josh caught a tic while we were at the science center.

Like Father like Son.

If there is a button, trust Brayden to be the first to push it!

Both Evan and Brayden thought looking through the magnifying glass was pretty fun!

Great mirror!

Josh blowing bubbles for the kids.  

The kids were under a blanket reading books together.  They really are both very cute kids!!

Happy January!!